Bonhams Bond Street Sale 2025 Preview
Bonhams|Cars will host the 2025 Bond Street Sale at their iconic flagship saleroom on December 11, 2025. The sale features a selection of over sixty highly collectible cars spanning automotive history, from pre-war British and Continental classics to modern performance cars and automobilia.
Leading the lineup is a 1928 Mercedes-Benz 36/220 S-Type Four-Seat Sports Tourer (chassis 35952) with a distinguished provenance as the former property of two-time Oscar winner Peter Ustinov. Additional headline lots include a 1931 Invicta 4½-Litre S-Type Low-chassis Tourer as well as a curated collection of low-mileage Italian exotics from the 1970s and 1980s including a 1972 De Tomaso Mangusta and a 1973 Lamborghini Jarama S.
This 1928 Mercedes-Benz 36/220 S-Type Four-Seater Sports Tourer, chassis 35952 with engine 71808, is a wonderful example of Mercedes-Benz’s legendary supercharged S-Type, combining significant history, authenticity, and touring usability. Built in period as a four-seat sports tourer, although the original coachbuilder is unknown, it retains its correct 36/220 S-Type specification with the powerful 6.8L supercharged inline-six and characteristic long-wheelbase sporting chassis.
The car has a well-documented provenance, including long-term ownership and careful preservation and restoration by leading specialists, while maintaining a strong emphasis on originality and correct detail. Finished in an appropriately elegant color scheme with matching touring coachwork, it reflects the dual-purpose nature of the S-Type as both a competition-bred machine and a grand touring car for elite clientele.
Presented with extensive history file, documentation, and expert reports, this 36/220 S-Type represents a rare opportunity to acquire one of the most important high-performance Mercedes of the prewar era – eligible for premier historic events – ready for a complete restoration. Perhaps this will make an appearance at Pebble Beach in a few years!
Estimate: £1,250,000 – £1,750,000
This 1931 Invicta 4½-Litre S-Type Low-chassis Tourer, chassis S79 with Carbodies coachwork, is a highly original example of one of the most coveted British prewar sports cars. Delivered new in May 1931 and first registered TF 5198, it has a well-documented history including period use by motoring journalist and racer Rivers Fletcher, long-term U.S. collection ownership, and return to the UK in 2004.
Retaining its major matching numbers and described as “totally original, patinated rather than concours,” S79 has been extensively campaigned in historic motorsport, including Classic Le Mans, Spa, and the Mille Miglia. Offered with FIA and FIVA papers, VSCC eligibility documentation, and a cache of original mechanical components, it provides its next owner with a highly eligible, event-proven example of the legendary Low-chassis Invicta S-Type.
Estimate: £600,000 – £800,000
This 1972 De Tomaso Mangusta Coupé, chassis 8MH 1296 with engine 302-00116, is a late-production example of Alejandro de Tomaso’s dramatic mid‑engined Ford‑V8 powered supercar, and one of an estimated 250 survivors remaining from 401 built. A rare right-hand-drive Mangusta, it has a well‑documented UK history from new, having been first registered in January 1972 and passing through a short list of recorded keepers, including London and Yorkshire owners, before entering its most recent long-term ownership in 1996.
Showing just 28,773 miles in 2020 – up from 22,546 miles in 1990 – the car has been regularly serviced, MoT’d and maintained by Ferdi’s Garage in Lytham since the late 1990s, with documented work including a new exhaust and front wheel bearings. Accompanied by an owner’s handbook, original brochure, V5C and a substantial history file, and noted as having appeared in publications by Richard Nicholls and in Mayfair magazine, this Mangusta offers a rare opportunity to acquire a well‑provenanced, event‑worthy example of one of the earliest true Italian‑American supercars.
Estimate: £200,000 – £250,000
The Lamborghini Jarama emerged in 1970 as Ferruccio Lamborghini’s pragmatic response to the American market’s new safety and emissions standards. Named after the bullfighting region in Spain, the car was introduced at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1970 as the successor to the slow-selling Islero.
This example, chassis 10420, is a desirable Jarama S – one of just 150 produced. Powered by a quad-cam 4.0L V12 that’s paired with a manual transmission, this left-hand drive model represents Lamborghini’s final front-engined V12 2+2 GT capable of 160 mph.
In single private ownership for some 45 years and offered from a deceased’s estate, this Jarama S shows just over 69,000 km and is accompanied by a strong paper trail, including old MoTs, an original brochure, and extensive servicing records from Ferdi’s Garage, Lytham, covering maintenance from the mid‑1980s through 2019. Period work by Nick Shrigley‑Feigl in the early 1980s included a repaint, body repairs, and interior retrim, while more recent expenditures includes a new clutch in 2005 and tyres and wheel refurbishment in 2022, making it a well‑documented, long‑term‑owned example of this rare and increasingly appreciated Lamborghini.
Estimate: £90,000 – £120,000